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 forth, cries out, Come back, my dear bairn, and be christened, and dinna rin to the hills to be a Pagan. So Willie grew better and better every day after his being brought to bed in the kail yard ; but his daughter was brought to bed some months after, which was the cause of the doctor's mistake.

Now Wise Willie had a daughter called Rolling-coughing Jenny, because she spoke thick, six words at three times, half sense and half nonsense, as their own records bear witness. She, being with child, was delivered of a bonny lassie; and all the wives in the town cried out, Be-go laddie, it's just like its ain father, lang Sandy Tamson (or Thomson,) we ken by its lang nose; for Sandy had a great muckle red nose, like a labster's tae, bowed at the point like a hawk's 'neb; and Sandy himself said, that it was surely. his, or some nither body's; but he had used a' his birr at the getting o't, to try his abilities, being the first time e'er he was at sic a business before; and when he had